Robert McKnight: Pressure is on Scott to work on health care

4:57 PM,
Nov. 21, 2012

Robert W. McKnight

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Among the first states to protest passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) was the country's soon-to-be-third-largest state, Florida.

Then Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum defiantly filed the first lawsuit opposing the federal mandate for government-run health care, and multiple states subsequently joined the litigation. This year, the Supreme Court ruled the law constitutional but added that the feds could not penalize the states with Medicaid funding appropriations. That last exclusion of Medicaid funding is critically important to a state like ...